Monday, July 23, 2012

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Hi! I just returned from an 18-month church mission in Hong Kong, and I'm headed back to school to finish my degree in Linguistics. This blog will document my adjustment to the real world. If you don't appreciate wince-worthy awkward moments and random linguistic-related insights, this probably isn't the blog for you.

The world works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ would take the slums out of people, and then they would take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.

-Ezra Taft Benson

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.-Thoreau